By Dave Helgeson
As we all know, the contents of an RV go through a major earthquake every time we head down the road. Keeping contents organized and in place is a constant battle, especially in the kitchen. Many items like pots and pans can be nested together, but what about the lids?
The various sizes, diameters, and knobs of the lids prevent them from nesting together. That allows them to slide around in your cabinets. They quickly become disorganized with each bump in the road. They move to and fro each time you brake and accelerate. What is an RVer to do?
I found this photo by Kevin Joseph on Facebook and had to share it with you.
The rack from your propane oven or an oven rack purchased inexpensively at a thrift store is the solution.
By placing the rack diagonally in a kitchen cabinet, as shown, you now have numerous divided slots to store lids for your pots and pans. The weight of the lids keeps them in place while stored and in transit. They can be easily lifted out vertically when needed. Genius!
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And where is the empty cabinet large enough to store that rack?
Where is the cabinet to store the oven rack?
If items in your RV are moving around and banging together, you’d best replace the RV or at least get the suspension repaired. One more reason to never have a rear kitchen.
Seriously? There’s nothing you can do to the suspension that’s going to prevent items from getting jostled around when you’re on the road. Most motor homes are based on truck or van chassis where a smooth ride is an afterthought. Trailers are even worse.
We have a rear kitchen & love it. I have never had a problem with storing lids or anything else really. My pans have detachable handles (2 of them) & 2 lids for the set, they store on top of the pans & don’t move. I’d never have room for the idea in the article, altho it is a good idea for sticks & bricks use if you have room.
Temu has a vertical rack which sits flat on the floor and hold 10-12 lids and it is adjustable to hold pots as well. Takes up a lot less room than this item – albeit a great, low cost suggestion – if you have the space avail. for it.
That’s a clever storage/organization idea, but I’d be more impressed if it included a method to prevent the noise that’s going to happen while rolling down the road. All that metal-to-metal contact will make quite a ruckus.
I got this rack for my lids. Hangs on the side of the cabinet, my mixer on the other side, and the ice cream maker in front of I also use packing sleeves to help protect the lids. Simple-Houseware-Mounted-Chrome-Finish
We don’t have drawers that large. The lids on our induction range cookware are glass with metal handles. Suspending them inside a slanted oven rack doesn’t seem like a genius-type idea even if that was possible. If they were metal, wobbling back and forth would likely damage them, especially with plastic handles. We store our pot lids in drawers lined with indoor/outdoor carpeting with 12″ foam sheets between them as needed.